From address@hidden Sat Jun 16 05:25:00 2001
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 10:33:38 -0700
From: Joaquin Blas <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: Current state of ASpell

Hi Kevin,

My name is Joaquin Blas (aka Kin) and I work on the Editor/TextWidgets 
for the Mozilla.org project.

There's been a lot of interest in the Mozilla.org community for 
integrating an open source spellchecker into the project ... and of 
course Aspell comes to mind. I talked to you a couple of years ago 
(maybe 3 years ago) about this possibility, but at the time I don't 
think Aspell  built on all the platforms and supported all the languages 
that Netscape needed.

So I'm curious, about the state of things now. What platforms does 
Aspell build on now?  Linux, Win32 and Mac? What languages are 
supported? Any asian languages? Does Aspell use Unicode? Is there 
library/binary distribution that can be linked into an app or dll that 
can be driven by an Aspell C/C++ API? I've heard mention of something 
called pspell, what exactly is that?

If there is a web page that answers all these questions, feel free to 
just send me the URL and I'll research all this myself.

Thanks for your time,

--== Kin Blas ==--